Smart Business Magazine, September 2014

September 2014 Smart Business Northern California 7 Data intensive computing Driving actionable insights from research sectors to the enterprise We can confidently say that what the microscope has done for the medical industry HPC has done for multiple industries It has enabled companies large and small to glean actionable insights from massive amounts of information and change the way we interact with and view the world Supercomputer usage growing HPC technology helps us review and analyze unprecedented amounts of information in real time Supercomputers have become a regular part of our daily lives often without our knowledge For example PayPal uses HPC technology to catch fraudulent transactions before they happen With millions of transactions made per day PayPal identified 710 million in prevented fraud within the first year In a different scenario the U S Army Intelligence and Security Command uses the same technology to inform real time battlefield decisions By rapidly rendering complicated 3 D geospatial features and creating heat maps that accurately pinpoint dangerous activity military personnel gain an upper hand in deciding on a critical course of action Were even seeing HPC pop up in the professional development industry in the world of journalism and also in efforts to counter pollution Each year we see organizations applying data intensive technologies in ways we couldnt have imagined a couple of years before let alone the applications and benefits we are bound to see in the next 20 years Data demands are surging There is a need for flexible technology infrastructures that ensure organizations can manage the many different types of structured and unstructured data Data is multiplying at a rapid pace and the insight we expect to get out of this data can affect everyone Thanks to years of scientific research and testing HPC can provide the kind of power scalability and flexibility enterprises need to help them best visualize analyze and manage large amounts of complex structured and unstructured data in real time There are three data centric platforms that come to mind when pinpointing the trends we are seeing as HPC becomes more widely used in the enterprise in memory technologies like SAP HANA cloud enabled analytics applications and Hadoop These technologies are helping the companies the people behind our smartphones browsers navigation device and just about anything connected to the Internet to automate insights innovate faster and bring products more quickly to market The Internet of Things drives the continued growth of more and more sources of data The potential insight derived from all this information translates into increased value for those able to take advantage of it With deep Silicon Valley roots and expertise in HPC data management and data analysis the best competitive organizations will take advantage of their data whether to make faster and more insightful business decisions lower costs or fuel growth Over the last few years weve witnessed several remarkable changes in the high performance computing HPC landscape JORGE TITINGER LOOKING FOR PATTERNS JORGE TITINGER President and CEO SGI a trusted leader in high performance computing is focused on helping customers solve their most demanding business and technology challenges by delivering technical computing big data analytics cloud computing and petascale storage solutions that accelerate time to discovery innovation and profitability In 2013 CEO World Awards named Jorge as a CEO of the Year in the Operational Effective Category www sgi com LINK UP with Jorge Titinger on LinkedIn www linkedin com in jorgetitinger